Print Your Own Stamps

[sbisson]

The Royal Mail's online stamp service has got a little easier (and cheaper).

Go online, buy some postage (which has to be used by the end of the next day), print out the resulting labels, stick them onto an envelope and post.

You can even use a credit card for less than £3.50's worth of postage...

Useful. And no need to subscribe to the old system.

Comments

[megadog.livejournal.com]

And no doubt we'll soon be subjected to howls of protest from the last-millennialists claiming that this is yet another nail in the coffin of rural/sub post-offices.

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

well, it is, of course. I know the postmistress of a rural post office, and it's very hard for them to make a living - in their case, they have a Co-Op over the road, so they can't even pick up that market.

she says if it were not for eBay, most rural POs would be dead in the water.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Well, count me less than impressed.

Here's the comment I've just entered at their site, having seen how this is supposed to work:

I'm worried that by using this I'd be breaking data protection act confidentiality by entering the addresses of recipients into your system.

On the whole I'd imagine that a lot of the people who use this will want to send more than one letter at a time - for example, I'd normally expect to use it to send out club newsletters to 20 or so members. By requiring an address to be entered for each person you're making this service considerably more difficult to use than going out and buying stamps.

Why can't it just print out the equivalent of 20 first class stamps?

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

The thing I dont get is why this is news.

The digital stamps thing has been available for ages. As far as I can see the only difference is that you dont have the queens head on the digital stamps.

(and they are cheaper now, so you say, and easier to use).